Description Decades before the term serial killer was coined, H.
Holmes murdered dozens of people in his now-infamous Chicago Murder Castle.
In his autobiography, Holmes struggled to define himself in the language of the late nineteenth century.
As the first--or, as he labeled himself, The Greatest Criminal of the Age--he had no one to compare himself to, and no ready-made biographical structure to follow.
Holmes was thus nearly able to invent himself from scra.
Exposit Books Words of a monster: analyzing the writings of h.h. holmes, america's first serial killer, paperback/rebecca frost
